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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 12, 1994Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1994, 3:31 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1994, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1994, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Gaines County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1994-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 612 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1994-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 12, 10:20 AM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1020 AM CDT THU MAY 12 1994

...REPORTS OF SEVERE EVENTS OCCURRING ON 12 MAY 1994...

TIME                   COUNTY         EVENT

1325 CDT               ECTOR          TORNADO BRIEF TOUCHDOWN JUST
                       TXC135         NORTH OF GOLDSMITH.

1354 CDT               CRANE          TORNADO BRIEF TOUCHDOWN 9 MILES
                       TXC103         NORTH OF IMPERIAL IN PECOS COUNTY.

1448 CDT               GAINES         POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST
                       TXC165         SEMINOLE.

1532 CDT               GAINES         3/4 INCH HAIL SOUTHWEST CORNER OF
                       TXC165         COUNTY.
1610 CDT               ECTOR          QUARTER SIZE HAIL WEST ODESSA.
                       TXC135

1628 CDT               UPTON          DIME HAIL 6 MILES SOUTH OF
                       TXC461         MCCAMEY.

1640 CDT               PECOS          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVERED THE
                       TXC371         GROUND 6 MILES NORTH OF BAKERSFIELD.

1834 CDT               HOWARD         QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN BIG SPRING.
                       TXC227

1910 CDT               PECOS          GOLFBALL HAIL 30 SOUTHEAST OF
                       TXC371         FORT STOCKTON ON HIGHWAY 285.
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward58 min
May 11, 7:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward118 min
May 11, 7:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
May 11, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton68 min
May 11, 8:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton3 hr
May 11, 9:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock3 hr
May 12, 12:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines3 hr
May 12, 1:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor57 min
May 12, 1:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Pecos56 min
May 12, 2:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor62 min
May 12, 3:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos117 min
May 12, 3:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton117 min
May 12, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor65 min
May 12, 4:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFMidland59 min
May 12, 5:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
May 12, 5:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton3 hr
May 12, 5:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMartin2 hr
May 12, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Howard62 min
May 11, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea56 min
May 11, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea55 min
May 12, 9:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea5 hr
May 12, 12:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEddy45 min
May 12, 2:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea5 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.